Toolbox

Introduction

Originated from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-single/index.html

If you're here, you probably want to implement Global Variables. For any other usage, just take this as a starting place.

The toolbox is a singleton, before anything else. But it improves upon the concept. Basically this encourages better coding practices, such as reducing coupling and unit testing.

Usage Example

MyClass.cs

public class MyClass : MonoBehaviour {
	void Awake () {
		Debug.Log(Toolbox.Instance.myGlobalVar);
 
		Toolbox toolbox = Toolbox.Instance;
		Debug.Log(toolbox.language.current);
 
		// (optional) runtime registration of global objects
		MyComponent myComponent = Toolbox.Instance.RegisterComponent<MyComponent>();
		Debug.Log(myComponent.anotherGlobalVar);
		Debug.Log(Toolbox.Instance.GetComponent<myComponent>().anotherGlobalVar); // GetComponent is not recommended
		Destroy(myComponent);
	}
}
 
[System.Serializable]
public class MyComponent {
	public string anotherGlobalVar = "yeah";
}

Implementation

Toolbox.cs

public class Toolbox : Singleton<Toolbox> {
	protected Toolbox () {} // guarantee this will be always a singleton only - can't use the constructor!
 
	public string myGlobalVar = "whatever";
 
	public Language language = new Language();
 
	void Awake () {
		// Your initialization code here
	}
 
	// (optional) allow runtime registration of global objects
	static public T RegisterComponent<T> () where T: Component {
		return Instance.GetOrAddComponent<T>();
	}
}
 
[System.Serializable]
public class Language {
	public string current;
	public string lastLang;
}

Requirement

(optional) MonoBehaviourExtended.cs (from GetOrAddComponent)

static public class MethodExtensionForMonoBehaviourTransform {
	/// <summary>
	/// Gets or add a component. Usage example:
	/// BoxCollider boxCollider = transform.GetOrAddComponent<BoxCollider>();
	/// </summary>
	static public T GetOrAddComponent<T> (this Component child) where T: Component {
		T result = child.GetComponent<T>();
		if (result == null) {
			result = child.gameObject.AddComponent<T>();
		}
		return result;
	}
}

Singleton.cs (from Singleton)

using UnityEngine;
 
/// <summary>
/// Be aware this will not prevent a non singleton constructor
///   such as `T myT = new T();`
/// To prevent that, add `protected T () {}` to your singleton class.
/// 
/// As a note, this is made as MonoBehaviour because we need Coroutines.
/// </summary>
public class Singleton<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : MonoBehaviour
{
	private static T _instance;
 
	private static object _lock = new object();
 
	public static T Instance
	{
		get
		{
			if (applicationIsQuitting) {
				Debug.LogWarning("[Singleton] Instance '"+ typeof(T) +
					"' already destroyed on application quit." +
					" Won't create again - returning null.");
				return null;
			}
 
			lock(_lock)
			{
				if (_instance == null)
				{
					_instance = (T) FindObjectOfType(typeof(T));
 
					if ( FindObjectsOfType(typeof(T)).Length > 1 )
					{
						Debug.LogError("[Singleton] Something went really wrong " +
							" - there should never be more than 1 singleton!" +
							" Reopenning the scene might fix it.");
						return _instance;
					}
 
					if (_instance == null)
					{
						GameObject singleton = new GameObject();
						_instance = singleton.AddComponent<T>();
						singleton.name = "(singleton) "+ typeof(T).ToString();
 
						DontDestroyOnLoad(singleton);
 
						Debug.Log("[Singleton] An instance of " + typeof(T) + 
							" is needed in the scene, so '" + singleton +
							"' was created with DontDestroyOnLoad.");
					} else {
						Debug.Log("[Singleton] Using instance already created: " +
							_instance.gameObject.name);
					}
				}
 
				return _instance;
			}
		}
	}
 
	private static bool applicationIsQuitting = false;
	/// <summary>
	/// When Unity quits, it destroys objects in a random order.
	/// In principle, a Singleton is only destroyed when application quits.
	/// If any script calls Instance after it have been destroyed, 
	///   it will create a buggy ghost object that will stay on the Editor scene
	///   even after stopping playing the Application. Really bad!
	/// So, this was made to be sure we're not creating that buggy ghost object.
	/// </summary>
	public void OnDestroy () {
		applicationIsQuitting = true;
	}
}